Every Thursday during this 12-week course, the Course page for the upcoming week will go live in the wee hours Eastern time (at about 1:00AM EDT which is UTC/GMT -4 hours). You'll also receive an email from me at that time with the link to the new week's page. The link for the week will appear in the Course Menu, or you can click the "View Week" button that will appear for each week on the dates listed below.
Once the course materials are available each week, please feel free to engage with them on whatever schedule works best for you -- you have lifetime access.
No one is peaceful all the time. But when you commit yourself to regulating your own emotions, connecting with your child, and coaching instead of controlling, your home and your heart get a lot more peaceful. In this session, I'll introduce you to the 3 big ideas that will change your life as a parent and shift your family, over the next 12 weeks, to less drama and more love.
Available Thu, September 21, 2023 VIEW WEEK
Children depend on us to help them self-regulate, so your ability to calm yourself is your most important parenting skill. In this session, I'll give you tools to notice when you're getting dangerously close to the edge, and powerful practices to return yourself to calm. If you're a yeller, here's where you take your Vow of Yellibacy.
Available Thu, September 28, 2023 VIEW WEEK
Parenting is 80% connection and only 20% guidance, because until children feel connected they have no reason to follow our guidance. In this session, you'll learn best practices for staying connected with your child, and specific tools for reconnecting after tough times. We'll also explore the power of play, since it's one of the best ways to connect with children.
Available Thu, October 05, 2023 VIEW WEEK
In this session, you'll learn how emotions work, including some secrets about anger that most people don't know. You'll learn how to how to help your child empty a full emotional backpack and how to heal even the most turbulent emotions. We'll practice using empathy, your magic wand, to give your child's brain the best possible environment to grow in self-regulation.
Available Thu, October 12, 2023 VIEW WEEK
Just what does it mean to coach instead of control? In this session, we'll discuss why children misbehave and what the research says about the best way to guide your child and teach the important lessons. You'll learn how children develop self-discipline and impulse control and why time-in works while time-out doesn't. We'll practice setting limits that stick, without power struggles or drama.
Available Thu, October 19, 2023 VIEW WEEK
You know those problems that always seem to blow up in your face and land your family in the breakdown lane, just when you don't have the resources to deal with them? You can avoid most of those surprises with preventive maintenance. This week we'll explore the power of routines, empathy, special time, scheduled meltdowns and other preventive maintenance practices, and how to put them to work in your family.
Available Thu, October 26, 2023 VIEW WEEK
If you've been relying on bribes, threats and punishment to get your child to cooperate, you can expect some bumps as you and your children learn new patterns of relating. You're all learning new habits. And you're healing old hurt feelings so they stop driving new bad behavior. This week you'll learn what to expect and how to make this transition work for your family.
Available Thu, November 02, 2023 VIEW WEEK
You can only give your kids what you have inside. In this session, you'll create a self-care plan to keep your cup full, so you can be emotionally generous with others. This also includes emotional self-care -- Learning to be your own most loving parent.
Available Thu, November 09, 2023 VIEW WEEK
This week we explore how children develop the fortitude that leads to mastery. We'll practice encouraging rather than praising, and learn how to find the sweet spot between free range and helicoptering.
Available Thu, November 16, 2023 VIEW WEEK
Those times when you say or do something you later regret? They're always when you're triggered, so you get hijacked by anger. In this session, I'll guide you through how to begin identifying and healing those triggers. Don't want to dig into your past? Your choice. This week is just giving you more awareness and mindfulness so you don't get upset so often, and can recover when you do.
Available Thu, November 23, 2023 VIEW WEEK
This week, we'll apply the peaceful parenting principles to raising siblings, so you can stop the fighting and raise children who will be friends for life. You'll learn simple yet powerful ways to foster a loving, supportive bond between siblings, and teach your kids to navigate conflict constructively. If you only have one child, no worries. These skills are also useful in peer relationships.
Available Thu, November 30, 2023 VIEW WEEK
This week, apply the Peaceful Parenting ideas to your biggest challenges by listening to your choice of recordings of Dr. Laura answering the most frequent parenting questions on a range of topics, from Handling Aggression and Anxiety to Siblings and Special Needs. You'll also put together a plan to make the Peaceful Parenting tools even more effective for you, and to stay on track in the future.
Available Thu, December 07, 2023 VIEW WEEK